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WEbook (pronounced "we book") is an online literary community 〔(BBC News )〕 geared towards discovering new writers and helping them on their path to publication. It brings together writers, readers, and almost 80 literary agents, for the purpose of finding new talent, and helping them get published.〔(Publishers Weekly 11/11/2009 )〕 Initially the vision of Israeli entrepreneur, Itai Kohavi, WEbook launched in April 2008, with corporate offices based in New York City. After a brief hiatus, on April 5, 2013, new owners re-opened WEbook to the public with a new publishing platform, where readers choose the stories they want to read and help get them published. WEbook.com claims to have been the first online community devoted to discovering new authors and uniting readers, writers and literary agents with unpublished manuscripts. Its latest move marks "a profound change of direction" for the website, for it sees WEbook become a publisher, enabling its readers to call the shots, finding and publishing books from within the WEbook community == Site description == WEbook aims to retain the creative spirit of independent publishing and to match it with the invaluable talent-spotting prowess of a traditional publisher, fuelled by the passions of an engaged social community. Through its free Page to Fame programme,〔(PageToFame FAQ on WEbook.com )〕 the decision-making is transferred to the WEbook audience, who will judge a book's quality and its commercial potential. If WEbook members read and rave about a particular book in the raw, it has a chance of being successful once published. Readers who sign up to Page to Fame are given book openings, short stories, essays, poems and blog posts to read, and are able to choose their preferred genre so that an author's material is always matched with its target market. Readers then rate each written work on a five-point scale, with the ratings determining the work's progression to the next commissioning stage. Each time a book is elevated, a publishing professional will review the manuscript. The programme is "fair and anonymous" - a reader is unable to search for a specific work or author, preventing biased voting. Those readers who review in high volume will be promoted to Top Scouts and Expert Raters. After five rounds of intensive reviewing, the most popular texts will be published by WEbook, which provides a full-service publishing process with 85% royalties. WEbooks, as they are known, are available from WEbook's own online store,〔(WEbook Store )〕 powered by the Albury BookShelf,〔(Albury Bookshelf )〕 both as digital downloads or printed editions. WEbooks are also available through all conventional booksellers. There are now more than 140,000 registered users, 70% in the US and 20% in the UK. There are no subscription fees, and all services are free. "We have no intention of trying to up-sell services to the active user base - we don't think they'd appreciate it, nor do they feel they need it." 〔(BookBrunch 01/24/2014 )〕 WEbook also helps writers through AgentInbox, a free electronic author-to-literary agent query service. Authors are matched with literary agents who are interested in their manuscript's genre.〔(Publishers Weekly 3/19/2010 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WEbook」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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